WorksheetsQuiz: U4:L6
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The conditions to be compared in an experiment. These are randomly assigned to subjects.
lurking variable
subjects
placebo
treatments
The available group of people (or animals, plants or objects) to which treatments are applied in an experiment.
double blind
single blind
control
subjects
In an experiment, a randomly selected group of subjects that gets no treatment, gets a placebo, or gets an established or standard treatment.
control group
treatments
subjects
observational study
A research study in which available subjects are randomly assigned to two or more different treatments in order to compare how responses to the treatments differ.
sample survey
experiment
observational study
placebo effect
A sham or empty treatment that to subjects of an experiment appears to be the real treatment.
response variable
placebo
subjects
lurking variable
What are "double-blind" studies?
when everyone in the study is aware of who received the placebos
when only the patients know if they received a placebo or not
when only the doctors know who got the placebos
when nobody in the study is aware of who received placebos
This is a relationship between two variables.
cause/effect
correlation
coefficients
experiments
A confounding
is the variable other than the independent variable the may influence the variable.
is an outside influence affecting the results of a naturalistic observation study.
ould influence the results of an experiment because of researcher bias.
is the one factor the researcher changes between the control and experimental group.
Experimental research...
tests on variable
always finds facts
are performed by psychologists only
tests a cause and effect relationship
Change in participant behaviour due to their own belief rather than an experimental condition is known as?
Confounding
placebo effect
control group
placebo
